Reviews and Comments

Made a quick start. I don't know why I wasn't expecting electric sheep.

This is something I've been meaning to read for a really long time.

Well, now I'm just going to be waiting for book 2.

I keep thinking that Dawn/Aurora has had such a hard life, and then there's an occasional reminder that she's still only like 17-19 years old.

I'm curious about the scope of this series now. I'm 50% through book one, and there are hints of massive scope, but not too much in the way of specifics.

I'm curious to see how all of these characters end up taking part in the same events. I guess they may not, but I don't know yet.

The distinct stories are interesting enough so far. I feel like there's been much less of Shallan's story than I was expecting. There was a fair chunk of setup, meeting Jasnah, etc. and then it just sort of stopped, or greatly slowed down.

I've been waiting for this for a while. I actually got a free digital copy via a Goodreads giveaway. Feels nice to read a book instead of listening to an audiobook for a change.

This didn't quite go exactly how I expected it. I'm not quite sure that the ending makes that much sense.

I'd try something by Breakwell again, but I wouldn't go through the whole book if it was too much like this.

Not bad, not great.

Edit to add that one thing that bugged me right to the end was the number of characters. Pair that with their names (alpha, beta, gamma, etc.) that gave no indication of gender, and I really struggled to tell them apart besides like Delta and Epsilon. Also, I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator did a bad job at a couple of sentences. The way some of them came out were like:

Ok then said, Gamma gently

rather than

Ok then, said Gamma gently

Not massive, but it took me out of the moment on more than one occasion.

Trying to finish this off before I forget everything about it. I started reading this in Hawaii just over a year ago, and then I had to return the book to the library unfinished because they wouldn't let me renew it. Now I'm listening to the audiobook version instead.

There was a big patch in the middle of the book where literally every single imaginable thing went wrong. It got a little overwhelming for a while, but I'm glad that I persisted, because the ending is good.

I wish I'd read this when it came out instead of waiting so long.

I started listening to the audiobook recently. It's 35 hours long, and that's only book 1.

I'm enjoying the production so far. It reminds me slightly of The Sandman audiobooks.

I have to be honest, I'm a bit fed up of everything going wrong. It feels like it's been disaster after disaster for like 100 pages. I really think there should be a little bit more good stuff happening to stop this from just being too much.